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Building a Portable 6" HeNe

Fiddy

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G'day,

I ordered a 6" HeNe tube and mounts from Sam's Laser classifieds:

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Now i need a 12VDC PSU, these 6" tubes run at 3 -3.5mA i believe.

I found these:

Aerotech LSS-05/FO HeNe Laser Power Supply 12V DC In / 1200 to 2000V DC Out | eBay

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but i dont know the current they put out.

Anyone tried these before?

Cheers! Fiddy.
 





Roam

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There is one seller on ebay who was selling these brick style power supplies just for the very same 6" tubes you are holding. They even had the ballast resistor and solder clips already attached to them. They were there last week and I think if you wait a bit longer he will probably relist them.
 
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Roam

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Btw, the pistol from the first Terminator film used one of these ~6" Helium Neon lasers as its laser sight. They had a lot of trouble making a power supply small enough to fit inside the grip of the pistol.
 




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